Phys. Rev. A 80, 022305 (2009) [5 pages]Speeding up entanglement degradationReceived 17 February 2009; published 4 August 2009 We present a method for tracking time-dependent entanglement between different modes of a quantum system as measured by observers in different states of relative (nonuniform) motion. By describing states on a given spacelike hypersurface, observers or detectors in different states of motion can detect different modes of excitation in a quantum field at any desired instant and thereby track various measures of entanglement as function of time. We illustrate our method for a scalar field, showing how entanglement degrades as a function of time if one observer begins in a state of inertial motion but ends in a state of uniform acceleration while the other remains inertial. © 2009 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.022305
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.80.022305
PACS:
03.67.Mn, 03.65.Ta, 03.65.Yz
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